''Anaeromicrobium'' is an anaerobic,

mesophilic A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, with an optimum growth range from . The optimum growth temperature for these organisms is 37 °C (about 99 °F). The term is mainly applied ...

and

heterotrophic A heterotroph (; ) is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, but ...

bacterial genus from the family of

Clostridiaceae The Clostridiaceae are a family of the bacteria Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of Prokaryo ...

, with one known species ( Anaeromicrobium sediminis). ''Anaeromicrobium sediminis'' has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the West

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

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Clostridiaceae Monotypic bacteria genera Bacteria genera Taxa described in 2017 {{Firmicutes-stub

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